So after a straw poll in the office, here's a list of our favourite films, which fall into the loosely defined hacker-film sub-genre, or as Reg readers have christened it, Haxploitation flicks. Share and enjoy...

The Italian Job

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

The Matrix

WarGames

The Conversation

Die Hard

2001: A Space Odyssey

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Independence Day

Tron

So that's our list of Hollywood's various attempts to commit the world of hacking to celluloid. In truth there are few films in which hacking is the central subject and we've ending up with a list of films which somehow featured hacking in their plots, and which we enjoyed.